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Studies in the eighteenth century III

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This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich area of study: the burgeoning of ideas about man and his place in the world, social history, philosophy and literature, literary criticism and traditions, the poetry and prose of the giants of the age.For all students of eighteenth-century studies this book will be vital reading.

Title Studies in the eighteenth century III : papers presented at the third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra, 1973 / edited by R. F. Brissenden and J. C. Eade.
Publisher Toronto, [Ontario]
Buffalo, [New York] : University of Toronto Press
Creation Date 1976
Notes Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Content Problems of Johnson's middle years -- the 1762 pension / James L. Clifford -- Boswell's ebony cabinet / Mary Hyde -- Bath: ideology and Utopia, 1700-1760 / R.S. Neale -- Social stratification and the obsequious curve: Goldsmith and Rowlandson / Robert H. Hopkins -- Rousseau and the common people / L.G. Crocker -- Jacques le Fataliste: un probleme de coherence stucturelle / Francois Van Laere -- The fortunes of Voltaire's Foppington / Colin Duckworth -- Nerves, spirits, and fibres: towards defining the origins of sensibility / G.S. Rousseau -- Philosophie et litterature / Yvon Belaval -- Nichol Smith's Oxford book reappraised / William B. Todd -- Integrity and life in Pope's poetry / S.L. Goldberg -- Allusion: the poet as heir / Christopher Ricks -- Augustan prose fiction and the romance tradition / Henry Knight Miller.
Series Heritage
Extent 1 online resource (292 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©1976
National Library system number 997010717835005171
MARC RECORDS
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